Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1850. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order... Read More
West Point cadet Thomas Ragland’s defense before a military Court of Inquiry for his role in leading a “mutiny” or revolt against Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872)... Read More
![[1880–1885, Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller Daily Diary / Calling and Visiting Book]. Amanda L. Rockefeller, 1856–1919.](/pictures/thumb/3727819_1.jpg?v=1543259255)
Nearly five-year social diary and calling/visiting book kept by Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller of Glenco [Glenco Mills], New York. Rockefeller meticulously tracked—typically in one-line entries—the... Read More
![From Harlem to the Rhine. The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. [Presentation Copy]. Arthur W. Little, 1873–1943, Arthur West Little.](/pictures/thumb/3728004_1.jpg?v=1542302157)
History of the all-black 15th New York Infantry Regiment (369th U.S. Infantry), known as “Harlem’s Hell Fighters.” The book was written by one of its... Read More
![From Harlem to the Rhine. The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. [Signed]. Arthur W. Little, 1873–1943, Arthur West Little.](/pictures/thumb/3728003_1.jpg?v=1542302156)
History of the all-black 15th New York Infantry Regiment (369th U.S. Infantry), known as “Harlem’s Hell Fighters.” The book was written by one of its... Read More
History of the all-black 15th New York Infantry Regiment (369th U.S.Infantry), known as “Harlem’s Hell Fighters.” The book was written by one of its white... Read More
A rare photograph of the participants in the 45th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Buffalo, New York in... Read More
![[Atlanta Exposition, 1895] Buffalo Greets the South. Richmond C. Hill.](/pictures/thumb/3727085_1.jpg?v=1536183478)
Illustrated pamphlet touting the “Commercial, Industrial, Shipping, Convention and Electrical Center” that was 1895 Buffalo, New York. The pamphlet was produced for distribution at The... Read More
The life of a forester and a lumberjack told from the perspective of a woman, a rare perspective according to the author. Illustrated with plates... Read More
![[1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original Photographs]. J. W. Hertzog.](/pictures/thumb/3727222_1.jpg?v=1534362503)
With 190 identified miniature portrait albumen photographs within, this Eastman Business College friendship album was kept by J. W. Hertzog of Exeter Station [now Lorane]... Read More
![Gen. U.S. Grant and Family at Mt. McGregor, [Saratoga Springs] N.Y. June 19, 1885 [Cabinet Photograph]. Ulysses S. Grant.](/pictures/thumb/3726739_1.jpg?v=1534362453)
Taken less then a month before Grant’s death, this cabinet card shows former president Ulysses S. Grant, seated on porch at center. he is surrounded... Read More
The Pennsylvania Railroad is trying to drum up business in 1883 and here make their appeal to the excursion committees of churches and societies. In... Read More
![[C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York]. Cayuga Lake Military Academy, 1870–?, Walter Douglas Young.](/pictures/thumb/3726652_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the... Read More
![[1892 U.S. Presidential Candidate:] An Outline of the Official Life and Public Services of His Excellency David B. Hill. David B. Hill, 1843–1910.](/pictures/thumb/3726535_1.jpg?v=1534362407)
Unrecorded on OCLC, a rare and ephemeral campaign biography throwaway from the 1888 New York gubernatorial race which re-elected sitting-Governor David B. Hill to a.... Read More
Description of a visit to the Cooperstown, New York home of American novelist, James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851). The author explored Cooperstown and its environs, which... Read More
Small archive of letters and manuscripts by members of the Smith Family of western New York state. The majority of the archive was created by... Read More
![[1885–1910 YMCA Manuscript Minute Books from Auburn, New York with Related Letters, Manuscripts and Ephemera]. Auburn New York YMCA, Young Men's Christian Association.](/pictures/thumb/3725474_1.jpg?v=1534362308)
Two large ledger books containing handwritten minutes and reports from the Young Men’s Christian Association or YMCA of Auburn, New York, 1885–1910. These two separate... Read More
A letter from Presbyterian, impoverished preacher Oren Brown whose pecuniary situation forces him to cancel his subscription to the Biblical Repertory of Philadelphia. Brown has... Read More
Collection of 44 letters by Sarah Frances “Sallie” Lotta to her boyfriend, later fiancée, James S. “Jim” Crossland, Jr. Sallie lives in New Rochelle, New... Read More
The Arts and Crafts utopian art community Byrdcliffe was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York. The principal founders were Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and his... Read More
Poetical friendship album kept by Martha Shippee in Jefferson County, New York, 1838–1841, before her 1844 marriage to Isaac Farley and removal to Charlemont, Massachusetts... Read More
Most nineteenth century trade cards do not bear an imprint. This one does, in this instance, advertising a resort house in popular Lake George, New... Read More
I am uneasy in my mind continually: there seems to be in decision, a want of stern unbending integrity of purpose; and yet a desire... Read More
A two-panel comic is seen on the back cover of Hudson River Wire Works brochure for a new clothes line style aimed at the woman... Read More
